Button-setting instrument



(No Model.)

G. T. FISHER.

BUTTON SETTING INSTRUMENT. No. 316,025. Patented Apr. 21, 1885.

WiLuessas. InvEnLcm.

NITED STATES I-ATEN'I Eric-E.

eUYoN, T. FISHER, or IONYIA, MICHIGAN.

BUTTON-SETTING INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,025, dated April21, 1885.

' Application filed August 29, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GUYoN T. FIsHER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ionia, in the county of Ionia and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Setters; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to devices for attaching buttons to shoes,gloves, 860.; and it consists in certain novel features of constructionand combination of parts, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device. Fig. 2 isa detail view in perspective of the button-holder. Fig. 3 is a bottomview of the lever. Fig. 4. is a detail view of the button and the.preferred form of fastener. Fig. 5 shows a detail view of a portion ofthe lever.

The support A may be of any suitable form to provide the pivot-bearing afor the lever and the base or seat a, against which to press thefastener. Thisbase is suitably formed to engage and bend the prongs orpoints of the metallic fastener into position to secure the button, andmay be modified to suit the variety of fasteners used,the specificconstruction of said base as shown being not essential to my invention,but being capable of change to suit the variety of fastener, as beforestated, or the direction, whether toward each other or apart, it isdesired to clinch the prongs of the fastener. The lever B is hinged atone end to the support, and extends out over the base a, and is movableor swings toward and from the said base, as will be understood fromFig. 1. In one side of the lever, near its lower edge, I form a mortise,B. This mortise is arranged immediately above base a in the position ofthe parts shown. An opening, 12, is formed upward from the top ofmortiseB through the upper side of the lever. In this opening Ipreferably form the upwardly-faced shoulder or bearing b for the spring,presently described.

In the mortise B, I arrange the buttonholder, consisting of the jaws 0,adapted to fit over a button, and having their points separatedsufficiently to permit the insertion and removal of the button-shank. Ashank or stem, 0 is projected from the upper ends of the button-holderand extends upward through the opening I), with its upper end above thelever, and is preferably provided on its up per extremity with a head, 0A spring, D, is arranged to bear between a bearing, b, of the lever andthe stem 0 and is by preference coiled around the stem and seated at itslower end on the bearing b, and at its upper end engages under the head0 or in other suitable manner with the stem 0. This spring gives tensionto the jaws proper to retain the button in the operation of settingsame.

Through the lower wall of the mortise, and in line with the opening 0between jaws G, I cut a slot, E, suited to receive edgewise the shank ofthe button, and-of the inner end of said slot I form a lateral wing orwidened portion, E, of a size sufficient to permit the portion of thefastener which catches in the shank of the button to be drawn upwardtherein. This prevents the button from becoming detached from thesetting-lever in the operation of the device.

I prefer to use the form of fastener shown in Fig. 4, though any otherdesired form of metallic fastener of the general character of that shownmay be set with my machine.

In use the stem, with the jaws, is depressed and the button, with thefastener applied, is slipped between the jaws with its shank extendedthrough slots or openings 0 and E and the fastener below the lever, andthe button pushed back until the shank of the fastener is drawn intoopening or wing E, when the button may be set on a shoe or other articleby placing the flap thereof on the base or seat a and pressing the leverdown thereon until the prongs pass through the article and are clinchedto it.

For the purpose of more securely holding the button I prefer to form thewing E at the inner end of slot E; but, where so desired, it may bedispensed with without involving any departure from the broad principlesof my invention.

The lever constructed as described and provided with its attachment-s ofjaws and tension-spring may be manufactured alone and sold to the user,and by him applied about in the manner shown to abench or other Suitablesupport.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

1. The button-setting lever B, formed with a mortise, B, and having anopening, I), and slot E, extended from respectively the upper and lowersides of said mortise, and provided with the jaws G, having stem 0",anda tension-spring, substantially as set forth.

2. In a button-setter, the lever B, provided with a mortise, B, anddevices therein, substantially as described, for holding the-button, andhaving a slot, E, cut through the base of said mortise, fitted toreceive the shank of the button, and having its inner end formed 20 withan enlargement or lateral wing, E, fitted to receive the upper portionof the fastener, substantially as set forth.

3-. The combination of the support provided with a base or seat, a, thelever B, pro- 25 vided with mortise B, having slot E, formed with awing, E, and opening b, and shoulder 1) therein, the jaws O, stem 0, andthe tension-spring, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in 0 presence of twoWitnesses.

GUYON 'r. FISHER.

Witnesses:

C. 0. THOMPSON, O. J. BLANOHARD.

